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This full-size 20" x 30" periodic table poster is a fun, useful,
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The No-Girlfriend Rule
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Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian
intellectuals of the twentieth century Beatriz Nascimento
(1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader
in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker
whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics,
and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora.
Her powerful voice still resonates today, reflecting a deep
commitment to political organizing, revisionist historiography, and
the lived experience of Black women. The Dialectic Is in the Sea is
the first English-language collection of writings by this vitally
important figure in the global tradition of Black radical thought.
The Dialectic Is in the Sea traces the development of
Nascimento’s thought across the decades of her activism and
writing, covering topics such as the Black woman, race and
Brazilian society, Black freedom, and Black aesthetics and
spirituality. Incisive introductory and analytical essays provide
key insights into the political and historical context of
Nascimento’s work. This engaging collection includes an essay by
Bethânia Gomes, Nascimento’s only daughter, who shares
illuminating and uniquely personal insights into her mother’s
life and career.
A collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and
between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the
Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences
across the region. Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean
suffer a triple erasure: as Black people, as women, and as
non-English speakers in a global environment dominated by the
Anglophone North. Black Feminist Constellations is a passionate and
necessary corrective. Focused on and written by Black women of the
southern Americas, the original works composing this volume make
legible the epistemologies that sustain radical scholarship, art,
and political organizing by Black women everywhere. In essays,
poems, and dialogues, the writers in Black Feminist Constellations
reimagine liberation from the perspectives of radical South
American and Caribbean Black women thinkers. The volume’s
methodologically innovative approach reflects how Black women come
together to theorize the world and challenges the notion that the
university is the only site where knowledge can emerge. A major
work of intellectual history, Black Feminist Constellations
amplifies rarely heard voices, centers the uncanonized, and
celebrates the overlooked work of Black women.
Create unique projects with all types of embellishments - like
lace, linens and hankies, trims and ribbons, buttons, and treasured
pieces - with ideas, techniques, and a 100+ stitch library to
inspire.
Create and embroider an endless number of crazy quilting seam
designs with this collection of four 4” x 8” durable plastic
stencils and instruction booklet from popular author Christen
Brown.
Few people realize how much science can tell us about the
differences between men and women. Yves Christen, provided the
first comprehensive overview of research in this area when this
classic book was first published in the1990s. He goes beyond
simplistic "biology is destiny" arguments and constructs a
convincing case for linking social and biological approaches in
order to understand complex differences in behaviour. Biologists
agree that the sexes differ in brain and body structure. Christen
links these differences in cerebral anatomy to differences in
behaviour and intellect. Taking his readers on a journey through
psychology, endocrinology, demography, and many other fields,
Christen shows that the biological and the social are not
antagonistic. To the contrary, social factors tend to exaggerate
the biological rather than neutralize it. This controversial work,
Sex Differences, takes on traditional feminism for its refusal to
confront the evidence on biologically determined sex differences.
Christen argues for a feminism that sees traits common to women in
a positive light, in the tradition of such early feminists as
Clemence Royer and Margaret Sanger, as well as more contemporary
feminist sociobiologists like Sarah Hardy. We deny sex differences
only at the price of scientific truth and our own self-respect.
Get the pocket guide to embroidery that everyone's talking about -
a 64 - page mini book perfect to take on the go! With over 30
essential embroidery stitches, this all-in-one-reference is ideal
for hand stitchers, crazy quilters and freeform embroiderers. Learn
the best stabilisers and thread for embroidery, then branch out
with eye-catching embellishments. This petite paperback is the
perfect size for your purse or embroidery kit - a great gift for
all sewists!
Love is less confined than ever, as is our desire to capture it.
Engagement photography has become an essential and valuable
component of wedding photography for both your clients and your
photography business. Successfully booking romantic portrait
sessions and providing your couples with creative, playful, and
beautiful images can mean a lastingand lucrative- relationship.
Award winning photographer Stephanie Williams shares her approach
to engagement photography, including her thoughts on the psychology
of shooting and directing couples, current industry trends, and the
use of blogs and social media. Discover photography tips on
romantic styling, workflow, and branding that will help get your
engagement sessions recognized by prospective clients and industry
publications. Whether you are an aspiring photographer or
established professional, this book is sure to inform and inspire
your next photo shoot. Read tips and testimonials from prominent
wedding professionals, bloggers, editors and stylists, as well as
Stephanie's actual clients. Learn how to build your brand and get
your work published. Improve or refresh your technical skill
through practical lighting, equipment, and technique guidance.
Diversify the way you interact with clients and style your shoots.
Be inspired through gorgeous photographs.
This delightful embroidery planner is a helpful, convenient way to
track projects both individually and in the context of larger
goals. There are no dates, so you can start at any time.
When you feel that pull to be part of social change, where do you
start? How can you ensure that your good intentions create a
positive impact? How do you focus your scattered efforts? And how
do you sustain yourself throughout? Impact brings you the answers.
Drawing on their network and experience as founders of She's the
First, Christen Brandt and Tammy Tibbetts show you how to create
your own impact strategy, one that fits into your life and allows
you to match what you have with what the world needs. Their
guidance, paired with interactive activities, will lead you to
identify your North Star, find the right partners, and plug into
movements for long-term, systemic change. Equally important, you'll
learn how to address biases, practice allyship, and shift power to
become more inclusive and effective in your journey.
This book provides modern technical answers to the legal
requirements of pseudonymisation as recommended by privacy
legislation. It covers topics such as modern regulatory frameworks
for sharing and linking sensitive information, concepts and
algorithms for privacy-preserving record linkage and their
computational aspects, practical considerations such as dealing
with dirty and missing data, as well as privacy, risk, and
performance assessment measures. Existing techniques for
privacy-preserving record linkage are evaluated empirically and
real-world application examples that scale to population sizes are
described. The book also includes pointers to freely available
software tools, benchmark data sets, and tools to generate
synthetic data that can be used to test and evaluate linkage
techniques. This book consists of fourteen chapters grouped into
four parts, and two appendices. The first part introduces the
reader to the topic of linking sensitive data, the second part
covers methods and techniques to link such data, the third part
discusses aspects of practical importance, and the fourth part
provides an outlook of future challenges and open research problems
relevant to linking sensitive databases. The appendices provide
pointers and describe freely available, open-source software
systems that allow the linkage of sensitive data, and provide
further details about the evaluations presented. A companion Web
site at https://dmm.anu.edu.au/lsdbook2020 provides additional
material and Python programs used in the book. This book is mainly
written for applied scientists, researchers, and advanced
practitioners in governments, industry, and universities who are
concerned with developing, implementing, and deploying systems and
tools to share sensitive information in administrative, commercial,
or medical databases. The Book describes how linkage methods work
and how to evaluate their performance. It covers all the major
concepts and methods and also discusses practical matters such as
computational efficiency, which are critical if the methods are to
be used in practice - and it does all this in a highly accessible
way!David J. Hand, Imperial College, London
This book provides modern technical answers to the legal
requirements of pseudonymisation as recommended by privacy
legislation. It covers topics such as modern regulatory frameworks
for sharing and linking sensitive information, concepts and
algorithms for privacy-preserving record linkage and their
computational aspects, practical considerations such as dealing
with dirty and missing data, as well as privacy, risk, and
performance assessment measures. Existing techniques for
privacy-preserving record linkage are evaluated empirically and
real-world application examples that scale to population sizes are
described. The book also includes pointers to freely available
software tools, benchmark data sets, and tools to generate
synthetic data that can be used to test and evaluate linkage
techniques. This book consists of fourteen chapters grouped into
four parts, and two appendices. The first part introduces the
reader to the topic of linking sensitive data, the second part
covers methods and techniques to link such data, the third part
discusses aspects of practical importance, and the fourth part
provides an outlook of future challenges and open research problems
relevant to linking sensitive databases. The appendices provide
pointers and describe freely available, open-source software
systems that allow the linkage of sensitive data, and provide
further details about the evaluations presented. A companion Web
site at https://dmm.anu.edu.au/lsdbook2020 provides additional
material and Python programs used in the book. This book is mainly
written for applied scientists, researchers, and advanced
practitioners in governments, industry, and universities who are
concerned with developing, implementing, and deploying systems and
tools to share sensitive information in administrative, commercial,
or medical databases. The Book describes how linkage methods work
and how to evaluate their performance. It covers all the major
concepts and methods and also discusses practical matters such as
computational efficiency, which are critical if the methods are to
be used in practice - and it does all this in a highly accessible
way!David J. Hand, Imperial College, London
This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection
of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It
discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical
issues involved. This work is sorely needed in a world where
cybersecurity has become indispensable to protect trust and
confidence in the digital infrastructure whilst respecting
fundamental values like equality, fairness, freedom, or privacy.
The book has a strong practical focus as it includes case studies
outlining ethical issues in cybersecurity and presenting guidelines
and other measures to tackle those issues. It is thus not only
relevant for academics but also for practitioners in cybersecurity
such as providers of security software, governmental CERTs or Chief
Security Officers in companies.
Everything embroidery bundled into one helpful how-to guide! Start
simple and learn how to choose tools and threads, achieve the
perfect stitch, and then start designing your unique embroidery
project. From basic stitches to complex combinations, each of the
500+ designs come with step-by-step instructions. Best-selling
author Christen Brown provides expert guidance for all including
tips and instructions for left-handed embroiderers.
This book brings together leading investigators who represent
various aspects of brain dynamics with the goal of presenting
state-of-the-art current progress and address future developments.
The individual chapters cover several fascinating facets of
contemporary neuroscience from elementary computation of neurons,
mesoscopic network oscillations, internally generated assembly
sequences in the service of cognition, large-scale neuronal
interactions within and across systems, the impact of sleep on
cognition, memory, motor-sensory integration, spatial navigation,
large-scale computation and consciousness. Each of these topics
require appropriate levels of analyses with sufficiently high
temporal and spatial resolution of neuronal activity in both local
and global networks, supplemented by models and theories to explain
how different levels of brain dynamics interact with each other and
how the failure of such interactions results in neurologic and
mental disease. While such complex questions cannot be answered
exhaustively by a dozen or so chapters, this volume offers a nice
synthesis of current thinking and work-in-progress on micro-, meso-
and macro- dynamics of the brain.
This volume starts with an elementary introduction covering stem
cell methodologies used to produce specific types of neurons,
possibilities for their therapeutic use, and warnings of technical
problems. In addition the authors report successes in achieving the
derivation of a specific type of neuron. The dopamine neuron offers
an important example and is discussed in more detail. Additional
chapters cover problems obviously approachable with cells derived
from stem cells, including their need in surgeries for pituitary
cancers. The last chapter provides an overview of this particular
field of research and presents a vision for its future directions.
Recent years have seen spectacular advances in the field of
circadian biology. These have attracted the interest of researchers
in many fields, including endocrinology, neurosciences, cancer, and
behavior. By integrating a circadian view within the fields of
endocrinology and metabolism, researchers will be able to reveal
many, yet-unsuspected aspects of how organisms cope with changes in
the environment and subsequent control of homeostasis. This field
is opening new avenues in our understanding of metabolism and
endocrinology. A panel of the most distinguished investigators in
the field gathered together to discuss the present state and the
future of the field. The editors trust that this volume will be of
use to those colleagues who will be picking up the challenge to
unravel how the circadian clock can be targeted for the future
development of specific pharmacological strategies toward a number
of pathologies.
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